Johnny Five is alive, Ghost 2.0, and Stimulus

#400 — August 24, 2018 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Due to unforeseen circumstances, this 400th issue of JavaScript Weekly comes to you from a tent in the middle of a freezing cold field in Yorkshire! Apologies if it's a few hours late, but we were also waiting for Babel 7.0 to drop (update: it's not, it's now next week). A huge thanks to you for being a subscriber, and an extra special thanks if you're one of the few hundred subscribers who has stayed with us since issue 1 almost 8 years ago :-) — Peter Cooper, editor Johnny-Five 1.0: A JS Robotics and IoT Platform — Now at some six years old, Johnny Five has reached its 1.0 release in an announcement at JSConf. The examples page is packed with source code examples of what it can be used to achieve. Johnny Five Team A Complete GraphQL Server Tutorial — An epic tutorial covering the full GraphQL server experience using Apollo Server and Express including authentication, roles/permissions, subscriptions, error handling, pagination.. Robin Wieruch Whitepaper: Choosing Web App Libraries in an Open Source World — OS frameworks lack a single, comprehensive component library for developers to build standardized UIs. In many cases commercial component libraries used in conjunction with OS frameworks can offer the best of both worlds. Read on to learn more. Sencha, Inc. sponsor Liftoff: A Look at the New Baseline Compiler for WebAssembly in V8 — Very technical but exciting news if you’re planning to lean heavily on WebAssembly. V8 6.9 (and hence Chrome 69) and above will start WebAssembly code much faster. Clemens Hammacher Introducing Ghost 2.0: The JavaScript Blogging Platform — Want a fully JavaScript powered blog? 2.0 takes big steps forward with a new editor, multi-language support, custom routes, custom site structures, and more. John O'Nolan Behind The Scenes of Dr. Axel's Latest JavaScript Book — Last week, we interviewed Dr. Axel about his new book, JavaScript for Impatient Programmers. Here, he shows just what went into the process of creating it. Dr. Axel Rauschmayer Stimulus 1.1 Released: A JS Framework for the HTML You Already Have — An interesting framework from Basecamp (formerly 37signals). Here's the full origin story including why it's useful. 1.1 includes new reference documentation and ordered actions. Basecamp 💻 Jobs Senior Software Engineer (NYC) — Learn from the best and lead by example. Do your finest work, with purpose, freedom, and a great community. Reaktor Senior Front End Engineer at External Data Systems, Netflix — Help build a world class user interface for the platform that collects data to drive business insights for our teams. Netflix Find A JavaScript Job Through Vettery — Vettery specializes in dev roles and is completely free for job seekers. Create a profile to get started. Vettery 📘 Tutorials and Stories Complex Numbers in JavaScript — I hope you like math! This is a neat walkthrough of calculating the dot product of two complex vectors with JS. Mateo Gianolio The Solo JavaScript Developer Challenging Google and Facebook — It’s a short, high level piece, but it’s nice to see Vue getting more mainstream attention which is basically what the article is about too :-) Klint Finley (WIRED) How to Do Functional Programming with JavaScript? — A handy cheat sheet used by JavaScript developers interested in writing functional style code. Check it out. Progress Kendo UI sponsor Level Up Your '.filter' Game — The filter array method creates a new array of elements that pass a test defined in a given function. This tutorial will help you feel confident with it. Adam Giese Taking Your First Steps with TensorFlow.js — Want to dig into a little machine learning with JavaScript? This introduces some basic concepts. Aral Roca New npm Registry Features to Help npm Users Protect Themselves The npm Blog Creating a Chrome Browser Extension: Screencast — Try 'The Frontier' free for 14-days. Short tutorials from the instructors and authors you trust. Big Nerd Ranch sponsor What Do The Three Dots '...' Mean in JavaScript? Adrian Oprea Build A Live Graph with D3.js and Pusher Ayooluwa Isaiah (Pusher) 🔧 Code and Tools Puppeteer Recorder: A Chrome Extension That Turns Browser Interactions into Puppeteer Scripts Checkly Git Tutor: Generate Step-by-Step Markdown Tutorials from Git History — An interesting idea. Well suited for projects where the git commits act as logical steps of growth. See an example of the end result. Andrei Volchenko Real-Time Error Monitoring, Alerting, and Analytics for JavaScript 🚀 ROLLBAR sponsor Immer: Create The Next Immutable State Tree by Mutating The Current Tree — If you want to work with immutable state, this is worth looking at. Michel Weststrate Pyodide: A Python Scientific Stack, Compiled to WebAssembly — The interesting outcome being seamless interactivity between Python and JS/browser. Demo here. iodide ajax: A Vanilla JS Module for Ajax Requests — Don’t want to use fetch but still want to make simple jQuery-style Ajax requests? This is an option. Fernando Daciuk Windows 2000 in the Browser via WebAssembly — Don’t click if you aren’t ready to use a fair bit of bandwidth, but this example of emulating Windows 2000 in the browser (at high performance, too) is certainly compelling. Fabrice Bellard 📅 Upcoming JavaScript Events Vue.JS London (Sep 20-21 in London, UK) — A two day event with talks, workshops and an advice lounge. JSCamp 2018 (Sep 22 in Chicago, IL) — A one day single track event. Framework Summit 2018 (Oct 2-3 in Park City, UT) — A new 2 day conference focused on all front end frameworks with keynotes from the teams of the most popular ones. Node+JS Interactive (Oct 10-12 in Vancouver, Canada) — One of the largest JavaScript events. Organized by the Linux Foundation. EmberFest (Oct 11-12 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) — The European Community Ember Conference

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